Moses Cox and Ed Leonard, colored, were given a hearing Wednesday morning on a charge of burglary before Squire J.L. Palmer and were held without bond for the next term of Franklin Superior Court, and Laura Cox, wife of Moses, was held for receiving stolen money knowing it was stolen, under a $200 bond for Criminal Court.
This case was the outcome of the burglarizing of the home of Mr. N.B. Tucker on Saturday night, August 1st, when some one entered Mr. Tucker’s bed room while he and his wife were asleep and took something like $400 from his pants pockets. A colored detective from Raleigh was secured on last Friday and put on the job which was followed by the arrest of Moses Cox, Ed Leonard and Cox’s wife on Sunday evening.
Robert Mitchell, alias Hence Mitchell, who was locked up Monday for intimidating the detective, was turned loose after a pretty plain lecture on the gravity of the offense, Judge Palmer accepting the defendants statement that he didn’t know the party was a detective and didn’t mean anything in violation of law.
From the front page of The Franklin Times, Aug. 14, 1925
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